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Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social writes poetry
Stephen Troussé @retrousse.bsky.social Movies & music at Uncut magazine + charity comms. https://trousse.ghost.io/
Iain MacGregor @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social Pub Director NF, @HoZ_Books | FRHistS | Author | Rep: @APowerAgent & @pastpreservers | Words: Guardian, Spectator, BBC History, The Critic, The Washing Post | Views my own
Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social Professor of Energy & Climate Change at Universities of Manchester & Uppsala. Translating climate science, through carbon budgets, into policy goals & mitigation options. Co-founder https://climateuncensored.com
Alex @alexdegreine.eurosky.social Human, animal, and environmental rights and welfare. Ehlers-Danlos. Dysautonomia. MCAS.
Writing The Dawn @writingthedawn.bsky.social Where biodiversity, neurodiversity & creativity meet | Writing, creative workshops & coaching|For every kind of bodymind | Neurodivergent-affirming | Anti-racist| LGBTQIA+ affirming | Anti-oppression
Simon Huddlestone @huddy99.bsky.social Interested in all sorts. Including weather, trains, UK politics & current affairs, old cars, maps, history, ships, planes, computers, cycling, public transport, nostalgia, Yorkshire & jokes!
Matt Flip Flop @mattflipflop.bsky.social Bicycles, Mountains, Campin and a dodgy taste in music .... married to the wonderful Jane Laundry.The only thing that should be separated by colour Alt. Banner pic. A postcard says "Derbados , more fun less passport" MD Ant AHCC Derbados Dweller
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own. Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild 🏳️‍⚧️ rights are human rights
Aeon Magazine @aeon.co Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. Visit aeon.co for more.
Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social Webby-winning, Ellie-, Peabody- and Emmy-nominated publication and creative studio exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture and spirituality. Currently not active on Bluesky. Find us here: https://linktr.ee/emergencemagazine
Daegan Miller @daeganmiller.bsky.social Essayist and Critic. For all the beautiful radiant things. Book: *This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent* http://bit.ly/2HYSaSK | Essays: http://bit.ly/2Gn3EPM
Matt Lanark @mattlanark.bsky.social 🏠 Silly stories on parenting, sports, movies + more 🧋Orange Mocha Frappuccino! @substack 🏀 Undrafted NBA free agent since 2012 📌 Washington, DC mattlanark.substack.com/welcome
Simmons Buntin @simmonsbuntin.bsky.social Author of Satellite: Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far. Founding editor-in-chief of Terrain.org. Tall drink of water. Dog walker. Photo taker.
Sean Enfield @seanseanclan.bsky.social Writer / Educator / Gardener/ Debut essay collection Holy American Burnout! our December 5th through Split Lip Press / PhD Student at UW Milwaukee / Asst. Nonfiction Editor for Terrain.org / Hybrid Reader for Abode Press
Dylan Kerrigan @rumagin.bsky.social Anthropologist, Caribbeanist, Sociologist. Peacebuilding www.dylankerrigan.com (every so often i delete all my replies)
katie cusumano @k-e-c.bsky.social writing, mostly, about culture and the outdoors. words in nyt mag, orion, longreads & beyond; assistant nonfiction editor for agni. based in portland, now. signal = kec.51. katherinecusumano.com
Krista Stevens @kristastevens.bsky.social Senior Editor at Longreads. Loves books, birds, bass, and guitar. 🇨🇦
Leigh Hopkins @leighherenow.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈 editor/curator: Khôra | writing: BOMB, Longreads, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus + | teaching: Corporeal Writing | rep: Kent D. Wolf | Philly 🏙️ | she/her/hers/we
Mark Armstrong @markarms.bsky.social Producer, writer, singer. Editor, @niemanstoryboard.org Podcasts @ursastory.bsky.social Music: https://www.instagram.com/markarmsmusic Founder (emeritus) of Longreads markarms.com
Seyward Darby @seywarddarby.bsky.social Editor in Chief, The Atavist Magazine (@atavist.com) • Contributing Editor, Longreads • Author, Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Frontlines of White Nationalism • May I please pet your dog? • www.seywarddarby.com
Jamie Cameron @jamiepcameron.bsky.social Editor at The London Magazine | Poems and fiction elsewhere
Forward Prizes for Poetry @forwardprizes.bsky.social The best new poetry published in the UK & Ireland
𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social Woods. Words. Birds. Birch. Beech. Bach. Reviewer of translated fiction for @irishtimes.bsky.social Co-curator of the poetry festival Circling The Square. @circlingpoetry.bsky.social
jason allen-paisant @jallenpaisant.bsky.social Poet. Winner of the TS Eliot Prize. THE POSSIBILITY OF TENDERNESS out now. Feticeiro da Jamaica 🇯🇲.
Clare Bogen @clarebot.bsky.social Publicity Director, Fitzcarraldo Editions Sometimes football, always cats.
The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social The UK's oldest literary journal: a review of literature and the arts, est. 1732, published bi-monthly. thelondonmagazine.org https://linktr.ee/thelondonmagazine
Darren Mark Skilton @darrenmarkskilton.bsky.social Collective Action Brighton & Hove. Left/Green. Solidarity RPM. Give Street Project. Vegan. Gooner. LGBTQIA ally. He/Him.
Matt @itsmattagain.bsky.social Twitter emigrant and irritant
Will Schwalbe @willschwalbe.bsky.social Author of WE SHOULD NOT BE FRIENDS, BOOKS FOR LIVING, and THE END OF YOUR LIFE BOOK CLUB. Co-author of SEND. Will be posting mostly about #books and #food.
Stewart Guy @stewartguy.bsky.social Naturalist. Wildlife Photographer. Aka StewRat. Founder of Wildlife.net Share, Inspire, Protect.
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC ezitron.76 Sig Newsletter - wheresyoured.at https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio Chosen by god, perfected by science CEO at EZPR.com
Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social I write the newsletter, Lines To Take, bringing you one big story of the day, every day. Sign up for free: https://www.linestotake.com/ I like human rights and French cuisine.
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt‬ | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine Proud queer 🏳️‍🌈 Trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social Political Theory and Intellectual History. Politics of Architecture and Iconography. Some Public Affairs Commentary. Posting in a personal capacity. Texts mostly in LRB, Guardian, Foreign Policy, Architectural Review. Representation: Wylie.
David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social Cultural talk and typing. And singing. Biographer of Stephen Sondheim. Variety, London theatre critic. The Stage, Associate writer. Tristram Hawkshaw in The Archers. Somewhat gay.
Curator Rob @curatorrob.bsky.social Museums, Archaeology, Romans, Corduroy All views are my wife's #SundayHuxley
Arthur Mandal @arthurmandal.bsky.social Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Best Small Fictions 2025. Over 40 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, Southeast Review, The Forge, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
Sam Langlois @naturalistsam.bsky.social Seabird ecologist at BTO Birding | Wildlife photography | Bird ringing He/Him. Aberdeen, Scotland. Views are my own
Max Hellicar @birdingtothemax.bsky.social Birder • Ringer (BTO Trainer) • Ecologist • MSc in Applied Ecology & Conservation • Long Point Bird Observatory Field Operations Coordinator • maxhellicar.wixsite.com/home
Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, popular medicine, and folklore.
Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI #LUFC jmthornberry.wordpress.com sandandgravelpress.com/store/the-finish-line-jason-thornberry
William Christou @willchristou.bsky.social Writing for the Guardian in Beirut.
Jules or Τζουλς 🕊️🍉 @katsikajules.bsky.social Irish/English immigrant sickened by so much, especially our Governments who claim to be beacons of values. If you find one, let me know. Occupation can NEVER bring peace 🇵🇸💔🖤🤍💚 NO DM's please. Humanity & #refugees lives matter, so does my dog 🐶
BTO England @btoengland.bsky.social The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is the UK’s leading bird research organisation. Discover research updates, project news and events from across England right here. https://www.bto.org/
Dawn Balmer @debalmer.bsky.social Birder, ringer, moth(er) and mother. Head of Surveys at BTO, BB Editorial Panel, BB Director, BBRC, Chair RBBP. EBCC Board. Views my own. She/her.
Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social Writer, naturalist, medievalist, teacher. Trustee of Curlew Action. The Cuckoo’s Lea, Bloomsbury, paperback out now. At work on a new book about winter: Hibernal. Marshes. Winter. Whisky. https://linktr.ee/cuckooslea www.birdsandplace.co.uk
Alison Grace @alijgrace.bsky.social Climate, energy & sustainability comms/PR at ECOS (environmental NGO) for work. Cycling for mobility, freedom & soul. #CouchPeloton for fun #WatchTheFemmes. 🌈 🦋 @ecos.ngo 🔗 www.ecostandard.org 📧 alison.grace[at]ecostandard.org 📍 Brussels
Jake Yapp @jakeyapp.bsky.social Did a thing, probably
Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social Winner of Wales Most Paranoid Man, 1998. As seen on Britain’s Saddest Fairgrounds, Giant or Dwarf, Bag of Wasps. Note: My ALT photo game is STRONG BRO.
Professor Simon Chadwick @professorchadwick.bsky.social Professor of Afro-Eurasian Sport https://substack.com/@geosport200
Ben Whitelaw @benwhitelaw.bsky.social Founder and editor of everythinginmoderation.co. Co-host & writer of ctrlaltspeech.com puns. Media consultant by day. #LUFC fan by birthright.
Simon van Teutem @simonvanteutem.bsky.social PhD candidate @politicsoxford.bsky.social | Columnist @decorrespondent.nl | Rower @ox.ac.uk | views my own
Ariel Saramandi @arielsaramandi.bsky.social Mauritian. Essays in Granta, The White Review & more. Portrait of an Island on Fire out with Fitzcarraldo Editions in June 2025.
Je Banach @jebanach.bsky.social Original Yale Writers Workshop Faculty|Writings: The Paris Review, Granta, TIME, The Atlantic, Story, Vogue, Oprah Daily, Electric Lit etc.|Author of 100+ guides to world literature for PRH, S&S, HMH, HC, GA📚 "Doesn't look sick" https://linktr.ee/jebanach
Jason Arthur @jasonarthur.bsky.social Associate Publishing Director at Granta Books. Late of the parishes of Routledge, Jonathan Cape, Vintage and William Heinemann.
Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social Author, nonfiction writing tutor, editor, proofreader. Out now in paperback, Endless Flight: the Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth (Granta). Agent: @thehamiltonagency.bsky.social
Ben Pester @benpester.bsky.social Novel The Expansion Project (2025). Story collections Sail Away Land (2026) Am I in the Right Place(2021). Other work in Granta, London Magazine, Hotel etc
Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social Words at The Atlantic, BOMB, The Baffler, Granta, The Paris Review, etc https://www.rhiansasseen.com
Amitava Kumar @amitava.bsky.social Writer. Novels include My Beloved Life (Knopf, 2024). Bylines: Granta, Harper's, New Yorker, NYT. Vassar prof. Guggenheim, Cullman Center Fellow.
𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com essayist, journalist, wandering-around-and-looking-at-stuff-ist books: On Trails; In Trees. magazine work: The New Yorker, Outside, NYMag, New York Times Book Review, Emergence, Lapham's Quarterly, n+1, Granta website: robertmoor.com
Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social work in X-R-A-Y, 3:AM, Granta, n+1 // website jamestaddadcox.com, editor @alwayscrashing.bsky.social // ENNIE award winner, apparently? https://store.possibleworldsgames.com/product/tacklebox
Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social Independent literary publishers. Discover our books here: http://granta.com/books/.
Cara Blue Adams @carablueadams.bsky.social YOU NEVER GET IT BACK, a New York Times Editors' Choice. Work in the New Yorker and Granta. Associate professor at Temple University. Brooklyn & Beacon via Vermont.
Barry Yates @rxnature.bsky.social Improving wildlife habitats and promoting nature in the coast and countryside around Rye in SusseX, UK, where fishing boats show the RX registration.
Tom Shiels @itstomshiels.bsky.social Writer of reflective essays on memory, music, and place. Attempting to live slower in the middle of the chaos. Irish living in West Yorkshire. https://storiessongsseasons.substack.com
Connor Harrison @harrysunsee.bsky.social Writer etc.
Theodora Sutcliffe @theodora.bsky.social Freelance hackette, content queen and recovering nomad. Working on a novel.
Novara Media @novaramedia.com 📺 📰🎙🚩 People-powered media. https://linktr.ee/novaramedia
Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social Writing. Teaching. Mentoring. Making... Books: @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social @edlacroisee.bsky.social Words: Guardian, Aeon, Vogue, Paris Review... https://susanna-crossman.squarespace.com
Barry Collins @bazzacollins.bsky.social Journalist, editor, little ray of sunshine for Forbes, PC Pro and others.
Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social Hello👍Bluesky happy to be here! 🐙🐙🐙🐙🪨🪨🪨 FYI👋I zombied IG👎
Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social Disability rights & sausage pics. Chief DWP botherer/ journalist at The Canary. Author of Ramping Up Rights. She/they. https://linktr.ee/rachelcdailey
Neil John Griffiths @njgriff.bsky.social functioning idealist, co-founder of @ARTSEMERGENCY.bsky.social & collaborator HARD ART COLLECTIVE 🍃
Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social Artist and nature lover - celebrating the wildlife and wild landscapes of northern England. Author of ‘Hartlepool’s Seaside Birds’. Art and photos are my own unless stated otherwise. Occasionally I write poetry - apologies in advance.
Erika Lee Sears @erikaleesears.bsky.social Oil Painter and French Fry enthusiast https://www.atinyrocket.com/p/links.html
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary. Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com Join The Onion Newsletter: https://theonion.com/newsletters/
Patrick Barlow @pbarlowjourno.bsky.social Journalist at BBC South East - DMs open for story tips for all things Sussex, Surrey and Kent or email Patrick.barlow@bbc.co.uk
Declan Lawn @declanlawn.bsky.social Writer/Director in TV and Film. Blue Lights, The Salisbury Poisonings, Rogue Agent, Rough
Andy Mitten @andymitten.bsky.social Started United We Stand in ‘89. Work: The Athletic, GQ, National, editor at large for FourFourTwo. Contribute to BBC, Sky et al. Written 13 books. NUJ member. United We Stand's website and forum http://www.uwsonline.com
Joe Donnohue @joedonnohue.bsky.social Football @ FourFourTwo | views mine
Tom Bassindale @tombassindale.bsky.social Head of School, Biosciences and Chemistry | Sheffield Hallam University. Interested in learning and teaching in HE, experienced in forensic toxicology / sports drug testing. Runs a bit, rides bikes.
First Novel Prize @firstnovelprize.bsky.social Writing competition for unpublished and independently published novelists. Entries close on the 31st of May. Judged by Sally Williamson (Transworld) and Hayley Steed (Janklow & Nesbit). Organised by the Literary Studio. Bloomsbury, London firstnovel.co.uk
Anna Jefferson @annajefferson.bsky.social Fiction writer/ playwright. Published with Orion and Penguin Random House. Rep’ed by C & W Agency. Artistic Director at New Writing South. All opinions my own.
New Writing South @newwritingsouth.bsky.social New Writing South is dedicated to inspiring, nurturing and connecting all kinds of creative writers in southeast England.
Abi Fellows @abirfellows.bsky.social Literary Agent DHH Literary Agency 📚 Shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year 2023 📚 Trustee at New Writing South 📚 (she/her) No query DMs pls.
Chris Dennis @chrisdennis.bsky.social Author of Here Is What You Do. NEA Fellow, public health, harm reduction, rural gay dad. Writing in: Best American Essays, Paris Review, Granta, Playgirl, Guernica, McSweeney's.
Rowan @rowanj.bsky.social I write about nature and landscape. Lecturer in Human Environmental Geography at The University of Sheffield. One quarter of the Nature’s Calendar writing team published with Granta.
Will Buckingham @willbuckingham.com Writer (HELLO, STRANGER, Granta 2022) & philosopher. In Pingtung, Taiwan, with a foot in Scotland. Professor @ Parami University, Myanmar. Director @windandbones.com https://www.willbuckingham.com https://www.windandbones.com
Emily Adrian @adremily.bsky.social Author of SEDUCTION THEORY (Little, Brown 2025). Stories in Granta, The Point, and Joyland. Editor at Great Place Books.
Andrew Durbin @andrew-durbin.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief, frieze. Book about Peter Hujar and Paul Thek forthcoming from FSG and Granta in 2026. More writing here: andrew-durbin.com. London/New York.
Linda Mannheim @lindamannheim.bsky.social Words in The Nation, Granta, Sight & Sound, and more. PhD Researcher at the University of Westminster. THIS WAY TO DEPARTURES, stories about leaving the place you're from, was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize.
Marina Benjamin @marinabenjamin.bsky.social Writer. Editor at Aeon. Midlife trilogy (Middlepause, Insomnia, A Little Give) &c. Essays in Granta, Aeon, Paris Review. New work cooking. Rep Rebecca Carter
Hannah Williams @hkatewilliams.bsky.social Editor at The Londoner ~hannah@the-londoner.co.uk Freelance arts and culture at the New Yorker/FT/Atlantic/Granta/Guardian etc etc ~h.katewilliams@gmail.com
Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social Early modern historian, writing ‘The Church in Interregnum England c1649-62'. Illustrator & co-author 'Nature's Calendar' (Granta, 2023). Environmentalist.
chris knapp @chrisknapp.bsky.social writer/journalist in paris. work in the paris review, granta, nplusone, among others. debut novel STATES OF EMERGENCY from unnamed press, sept 2024 chrisknapp.net | substack.com/@chrisknapp https://www.unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/states-of-emergency
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social BTO is the UK's leading Registered Charity working with volunteers to improve our knowledge of birds through monitoring and research. www.bto.org
Sam Bayley @sambayley.bsky.social NPWS Conservation Ranger Cork. SouthWest Ireland Ringing Group bird ringer, moth-er, general naturalist + ecologist. Irish Cuckoo Tagging Project. Ex-Warden of Cape Clear Bird Observatory 2016/17.
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her. Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring. Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk